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Julius Caesar Events Quotes

Act 1, Scene 1

FLAVIUSThese growing feathers plucked from Caesar's wingWill make him fly an ordinary pitch,Who else would soar above the view of menAnd keep us all in servile fearfulness. (1.1.77-80)

Act 1, Scene 2

BRUTUSWhat means this shouting? I do fear the peopleChoose Caesar for their king.CASSIUS                              ...

Act 1, Scene 3

CASSIUSAnd why should Caesar be a tyrant then?Poor man! I know he would not be a wolfBut that he sees the Romans are but sheep;He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.Those that with haste will make...

Act 2, Scene 1

BRUTUSHe would be crowned:How that might change his nature, there's the    question.It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,[...]And therefore think him as a serpent's eggWhich,...

Act 2, Scene 2

CAESARCalphurnia here, my wife, stays me at home.She dreamt tonight she saw my statue,Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,Did run pure blood, and many lusty RomansCame smiling and did bat...

Act 2, Scene 4

PORTIAI must go in. [Aside] Ay me, how weak a thingThe heart of woman is! (2.4.45-46)

Act 3, Scene 1

CAESARI could be well moved, if I were as you.If I could pray to move, prayers would move me.But I am constant as the Northern Star,Of whose true fixed and resting qualityThere is no fellow in the...

Act 3, Scene 2

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. (3.2.82)

Act 3, Scene 3

CINNA THE POET Truly, my name is Cinna.FIRST PLEBEIAN Tear him to pieces! He's a conspirator.CINNA THE POET I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet!FOURTH PLEBEIANTear him for his bad verses,...

Act 4, Scene 1

OCTAVIUSYou may do your will,But he's a tried and valiant soldier.ANTONYSo is my horse, Octavius, and for thatI do appoint him store of provender.It is a creature that I teach to fight,To wind, to...

Act 4, Scene 2

BRUTUSCassius, be content.Speak your griefs softly. I do know you well.Before the eyes of both our armies here(Which should perceive nothing but love from us),Let us not wrangle. Bid them move away...

Act 4, Scene 3

CASSIUSStrike as thou didst at Caesar, for I knowWhen thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him    betterThan ever thou lovedst Cassius. (4.3.116-119)

Act 5, Scene 1

BRUTUSWhy then, lead on.—O, that a man might knowThe end of this day's business ere it come!But it sufficeth that the day will end,And then the end is known. (5.1.133-136)

Act 5, Scene 5

ANTONY This was the noblest Roman of them all.All the conspirators save only heDid that they did in envy of great Caesar.He only in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all made one of them....